John 20:15-16 (Called by Name)

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We might imagine that the visions of angels announcing Jesus’ resurrection from the dead would be so dramatic that the women who had seen them could never come to doubt them.  And yet, precisely because their experience was so singular and outside of the normal course of events, that is exactly what they did.  For…

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John 20:11 (Mary Weeping)

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In the first written account of Jesus’ resurrection, Matthew highlights the initial discovery of the empty tomb by Mary Magdalene and another Mary, the mother of James and Joseph (abbreviated as Joses), and His subsequent resurrection appearance to them; see Mat 28:5-9.  However, for his purposes in summarizing the account, he omitted details of the…

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